culture and art

culture and art

President Chapo Launches €40,000 National Literary Contest

President Chapo Launches €40,000 National Literary Contest

Africa-Press - Mozambique. Mozambican President Daniel Chapo launched a national literary contest on Saturday titled “50 Anos da Independência Nacional”, backed by...
Italian Film Festival opens in Maputo

Italian Film Festival opens in Maputo

Africa-Press - Mozambique. The 18th edition of the Italian Film Festival in Maputo is taking place from 3 to 6 December, organized...
Grindrod Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness in Mozambique

Grindrod Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness in Mozambique

Africa-Press - Mozambique. Throughout October, Grindrod united employees, families, and community partners across Mozambique and South Africa in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month....
Norway Donates $2.9 Million for Youth in Northern Mozambique

Norway Donates $2.9 Million for Youth in Northern Mozambique

Africa-Press - Mozambique. The Government of Norway today pledged US$2.9 million (€2.5 million) through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support the empowerment...
Ler É Uma Festa Celebrates Mozambique's PALOP Publishing

Ler É Uma Festa Celebrates Mozambique’s PALOP Publishing

Africa-Press - Mozambique. The Fernando Leite Couto Foundation highlights Mozambique’s vibrant publishing sector, leading literary production among the Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP), in the...
25 Years Without Carlos Cardoso

25 Years Without Carlos Cardoso

By Joseph Hanlon Africa-Press - Mozambique. Saturday, 22 November 2025, marked 25 years since Mozambique’s most important investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, was gunned down. There...
Kinani Celebrates 20 Years at Maputo Festival

Kinani Celebrates 20 Years at Maputo Festival

Africa-Press - Mozambique. The Mozambican contemporary dance platform Kinani will ‘occupy’ the chapel of the São Francisco Xavier (Ronil) Cemetery in central Maputo to...
Africa’s growing influence at the Grammys

Africa’s growing influence at the Grammys

Africa-Press - Mozambique. African music is no longer inching its way into global spaces, it’s moving with confidence and rewriting what mainstream pop looks...
BCI Awards Scholarships to Enhance Music Training

BCI Awards Scholarships to Enhance Music Training

Africa-Press - Mozambique. The Commercial and Investment Bank (BCI) supports young Mozambicans to attend the Professional Music Course at the Escola Profissional de Artes...
Newspaper Vendors Struggle in Maputo Amid Internet Impact

Newspaper Vendors Struggle in Maputo Amid Internet Impact

Africa-Press - Mozambique. Jorge Francisco is one of the many Maputo newspaper vendors who has seen sales “plummet” after the Covid-19 pandemic, with the...